Wild Montana Skies

How easily Kacey slipped back into his life. As if she belonged. But the fact was, even after years in the music industry, he didn’t know where – or if- he belonged. Sure Benjamin King as his larger-than-life persona still had a foothold in Nashville, but the Ben King who just wanted a basket of fries and a brat off the grill, to take his girl down to the Gray Pony and sing her a song from the stage, to go stargazing from the back of his pickup afterward – that Ben he’d somehow lost along the way and didn’t know how to find him again.

Book: Wild Montana Skies by Susan May Warren, Revell Publishers, 2016

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Target Audience: Adult Women

Subjects: Identity, Forgiveness, Fear

Summary: Thirteen years ago lies changed three lives. Ben got told that the girl he loved was giving their baby up for adoption and wanted nothing more to do with him. So he left home and went to Nashville, becoming a big name in the music industry. He left behind the only thing that inspired him to write his own music though. Kacey got told a partial truth – the father of her child was in jail when she was giving birth and abandoned her. In her despair and uncertainty she joins the military, leaving Aubrey, her daughter, to be raised by grandparents instead of a father or mother. Now circumstances have forced both Ben and Kacey back home at the same time and working on the same search and rescue team. If truth is revealed can forgiveness be offered, can fear be overcome, can identity be discovered? Or will each continue living half lives in despair?

Notes: Wild Montana Skies is the first in the Montana Rescue Series about characters living in a small town running search and rescue operations. This spiritual issues the characters wrestle with in this book are identity, forgiveness and fear. Neither character is quite sure who are they and who God wants them to be. They have both resorted to attempting to find identity in their careers but they are both facing the possibility of losing their careers, so they have to reexamine who they are and who they should be. Forgiveness for the sins of thirteen years ago are an issue. And Kacey in particular is wrestling with fear. Some of the side characters also are wrestling with these issues. The series overall is themed around Amazing Grace – each book dealing with some of the themes of the song – being lost and found and finding grace.

Spiritual Content Recommendation Scale: 5/5

Reviewer: J:-)mi

Psalm 23:6 – Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the ways of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Thank you to the publishers for providing me with a free review copy of this book! I greatly appreciate it! All opinions are my own.